On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:48:32AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > > > Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now > > improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default? > > Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or > easily hackable, it would be better to not subject our users to those > attacks by default.
Yes, and we should do that in a way so that our users are not subject to those attacks by default, but can still log in to their system by using a biometric sensor, if the laptop provides that feature and they want it? -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
